What I don’t understand with many people that I’ve talked to is that I can show them a blatant lie mixed in with the truths and instead of being like “well I will no longer trust this media source” they instead turn around and make excuses for that lie and then keep using that source. I don’t get it. I’ve always been deeply offended when I’ve been lead to believe a lie by any news source. I’ve totally changed my entire political stance from my twenties (as a hard line economic conservative) all the way to now, being 35 and about as economically left as they come. This has come almost unilaterally from being pissed off at being lied to by media sources and books Ive read and turned onto sources that I can at some level verify they aren’t lying. And it really isn’t that hard if you just cut out every source that lies even a little bit to you.
That doesn’t surprise me that it’s common on Netflix. I’m going to be even more vigilant now with everything going on in the world.
That technique of mixing half truths in is pretty effective. Our news media enjoys that technique often, if not exclusively.
What I don’t understand with many people that I’ve talked to is that I can show them a blatant lie mixed in with the truths and instead of being like “well I will no longer trust this media source” they instead turn around and make excuses for that lie and then keep using that source. I don’t get it. I’ve always been deeply offended when I’ve been lead to believe a lie by any news source. I’ve totally changed my entire political stance from my twenties (as a hard line economic conservative) all the way to now, being 35 and about as economically left as they come. This has come almost unilaterally from being pissed off at being lied to by media sources and books Ive read and turned onto sources that I can at some level verify they aren’t lying. And it really isn’t that hard if you just cut out every source that lies even a little bit to you.